TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Earnings season is racing past us, with the big ride-hailing companies’ numbers in , all of the Big Five having wrapped their reporting and lots of SaaS numbers in the market. We’re not really concerned with their overall revenue and profit metrics. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

After all, how big could the OKR software market really be? The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. After OKR-focused Gtmhub announced its $30 million Series B the other day , The Exchange reached out to a number of OKR-focused startups we’ve previously covered and asked about their 2020 growth.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

TechCrunch collected growth metrics from a host of companies competing in the OKR and corporate goal-setting market, including Ally. In 2020, Gtmhub , Perdoo , WorkBoard , and Ally.io Such rapid growth from so many players in such a competitive space could signal a huge market. all grew in the triple digits.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Putting serverless to the test In 2020, we made an architecture decision to leverage serverless architecture for implementing a fraud detection use case. Time to market. To accurately measure this metric, we decided to look at the number of hours spent on computing-related issues and the number of incidents overall. Scalability.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

But a challenge came up in 2021 as he was raising the seed round — the venture funding market got white-hot. By 2020, the capital deployed had ballooned to $164 billion, according to PitchBook NVCA. The list of superlatives describing this insane bull market is getting longer. In 2016, total VC investments in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

This morning Ramp , a startup that competes in the corporate spend market, announced that it has secured a $150 million debt facility with Goldman Sachs. Ramp previously raised a $30 million Series B in late December 2020, after raising a $23 million Series A earlier in the same year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

Ashwin Ramasamy is the co-founder of PipeCandy , an online merchant graph company that discovers and analyzes business and consumer perception metrics about D2C brands and e-commerce companies. Mind the gap: E-commerce marketers should revise their TAM and SAM estimates. times between 2017 and 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

We’ve increasingly wondered if the Series A market in fintech is really as hot as it seems. As pre-seed and seed-stage investors, we know that the health of the Series A market is of critical importance. Why Series A is so interesting.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Over 90% of the fastest-growing open-source companies in 2020 were founded outside the San Francisco Bay Area, and 12 out of the top 20 originate in Europe, according to a new study. Admittedly, “ GitHub stars” are not a totally perfect metric to measure the product-market fit of open-source companies.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

That’s when he and Michelle Lee, his first bizops hire, decided to start the subscription intelligence startup Subscript in December 2020. Due to still being early in the journey and building a complex product, Kakkar said adding more people will be key in engineering and market support fictions.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

On Taobao’s Singles Day in 2020, livestreams racked up $6 billion in sales, twice as much revenue as the year prior. ” To help entrepreneurs take on the most fundamental challenge facing early-stage startups, our team is speaking to growth marketers to learn more about the advice they’re offering clients these days.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

The company is targeting the public markets at a particularly heady time for new offerings, with investors embracing venture-backed IPOs throughout late 2020 and the start of 2021. million total paying users through the first nine months of 2020; the percent, then, of paying users to MAUs is not 2.4 million in 2020 revenues.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

ai themselves filed to go public in what could be a rush to the public markets by richly valued startups. What changed from the first three quarters of 2019 to the first three quarters of 2020? million in the same period of 2020. So, where will Airbnb wind up in 2020 once it’s all done?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Coinbase’s financials show a company that grew rapidly from 2019 to 2020. More than that, the company also crossed the threshold into unadjusted profitability; it’s common amongst quickly-growing tech companies to lean more heavily on adjusted profit and other more flattering metrics. million in the final quarter of 2020.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Since our last robotics investor survey in February 2020, Figure emerged from stealth with its bipedal humanoid robot, and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas became a parkour expert. 4 SaaS engagement metrics that attract investors Ask Sophie: How many employment green cards are available each year? Cast your vote before Thursday, April 20!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s been a bizarre few weeks, with Robinhood raising a torrent of new funds to keep its zero-cost trading model afloat during turbulent market conditions, other neo-trading houses changing up their business model and more. Market Notes.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

For now we’ll stick to Squarespace’s historical results through 2020 without those accoutrements; if you intend to buy shares in the company, you’ll want to understand the more complicated math. For now let’s focus on Squarespace’s own metrics. In 2020 those numbers changed to revenues of $621.1

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Uber and Lyft lost a lot of money in 2020. That’s not a surprise, as COVID-19 caused many ride-hailing markets to freeze, limiting demand for folks moving around. billion in 2020. billion in 2020. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. billion in 2020 , an improvement from its 2019 loss of $8.51

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

In its release, Coinbase disclosed the following metrics, which TechCrunch has compared to metrics from its S-1 filing : Monthly transacting users (MTUs) of 6.1 million at the end of 2020. billion at the end of 2020. billion at the end of 2020. million in Q4 2020. million in Q4 2020. Revenue of $1.8

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The company says it plans to use the funds to speed up customer acquisition in its present markets. Fawry was launched in 2007, but didn’t become a billion-dollar company until 2020, a year after going public. Rising African venture investment powers fintech, clean tech bets in 2020. Maybe just a few.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In 2020, the company grew sharply to more than $1.2 The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. The company’s Q4 2020 was about as big as its entire 2019 in revenue terms, albeit much more profitable because the sum was concentrated in a single quarter instead of spread out over four. Sound good?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

There have been warnings that these landmark fundraises are driven by too much capital available and a highly competitive venture market. However, despite the twofold growth in dollars invested, the number of companies receiving funding has grown by less than 30% compared with Q3 2020.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

That was the lesson we learned in late 2020 by examining operating results from a number of neobanks. The push to rethink consumer banking is a global effort, with neobanks cropping up in essentially every market you can think of. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Revolut’s 2020.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

But as its public market movement appears to be an artificial bump in value, we’ll just wait. Here’s what I want to talk about this fine Saturday: Bloomberg reporting that Stripe is in the market for more money, at a price that could value the company at “more than $70 billion or significantly higher, at as much as $100 billion.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2020

It doesn’t mean that they’ll have a positive bottom line at the end of 2020. And when you’re growing rapidly, supporting growth and opening new markets require a ton of effort. Overall, Lydia grew its user base by 50% in 2020 compared to 2019. Consumer fintech startups are focusing on product first, growth second.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Challenges in the traditional car rental industry have certainly allowed Turo to gain some market share, despite steep competition, but that popularity has come with a cost at times, a reading of the risk factors portion of the S-1 shows. In 2020, Turo generated net revenue of $149.9 In 2020, Turo generated net revenue of $149.9

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This morning LeadIQ , a startup working in the sales software market, announced that it has closed a $30 million Series B led by Cathay Innovation. According to Siauw, the effort will help sales teams better work with marketing teams, allowing for more complete information sharing and hopefully better sales results.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

In 2020, startups in the region raised over $8.2 Over 229 family offices have been registered in Singapore since 2020, with total assets under management of an estimated $20 billion. Southeast Asia has become an attractive market for U.S. billion in 2020 from $1.6 billion, about four times more than they did in 2015.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Is the trading boom of 2020 and 2021 slowing? The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. It’s likely fair to say that Coinbase and Robinhood are bullish enough about the cryptocurrency market to be unbothered by short-term changes to crypto trading volumes. Robinhood’s market notes. The popular U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Posting audited financials can prove detrimental for a private African company for several reasons ranging from bad marketing and PR if huge losses are incurred to regulatory clampdown if the company performs well. As we wait for its annual report for 2020, its year in review offers a sneak peek into how Carbon grew the past year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2021

Notably, Santa Monica, California-based ReCharge was bootstrapped for several years before raising $50 million in a previously undisclosed Series A from Summit Partners in January of 2020. The company has some impressive growth metrics, no doubt in part driven by the COVID-19 pandemic’s push to all things digital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Reports say healthtech in Africa should reach a market value of over US$11 billion by 2025 and Reliance Health is looking to play a pivotal role in the continent reaching that capitalization. So essentially what we’re trying to do is to use technology to make quality health care accessible and affordable in emerging markets.”.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The pandemic has been the most animating force for startups and venture capital in 2020, discounting the slow movement of global business into the digital realm. Great business, even if Roblox warned that growth could slow sharply next year, when compared to its epic 2020 gains. Market Notes. Next up: Growth metric.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Alex Wilhelm keeps a close watch on the public markets in his column The Exchange, but this week, he branched out to look at some of the metrics underpinning soaring cryptocurrency prices and turned his gaze on StockX , the consumer reseller marketplace that just raised $275 million in a Series E that values the company at approximately $2.8

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The news is coming seven months after TechCrunch announced that the company, founded in January 2020, took part in Y Combinator’s winter batch that included nine other African startups. With one of the highest inflation rates in the world, the country saw prices of food items such as beans grow by over 70% from July 2020 to July 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. based startups in Q3 2020? The former data provider] calls the number a seven-quarter high, up 22% from the Q3 2019 number and 30% from the Q2 2020 result.” Venture debt in 2020. million in “funded loans” in Q3 2020, it told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Mural also raised a $23 million Series A at the start of 2020. That second figure is up from a “couple” seven-figure deals at the start of 2020, a figure that the company disclosed at the time of its Series A. Per Suarez-Battan, Mural has continued the torrid pace of growth that made it a breakout company in 2020.

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